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Top 3 Questions Before Submitting to a SQL Saturday
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PASS Summit 2014 Streaming Keynotes
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The Hidden Cost of MAXDOP: CPU Spikes, Query Slowdowns, and What We Learned
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The Hidden Cost of MAXDOP: CPU Spikes, Query Slowdowns, and What We Learned
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Question of the Day
Using Heaps
When does Microsoft recommend using a heap as a table structure (no clustered index)?
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